Help

Getting your site live

From a finished-looking page to something the public can visit.

Put your website online

Nothing you do in the editor is public until you press Publish. Here is that moment.

3 min

What Kitset costs and how to pay

Ten dollars a month, one web address included, cancel whenever.

3 min

Show someone before it goes live

Send a private link so a partner or a client can look, without publishing.

2 min

Publish later, on a schedule

Write it now, have it go live on Monday morning.

2 min

Your own web address

Using a domain you own, like mybusiness.co.nz, instead of the address we give you.

Connect a domain you already own

Point mybusiness.co.nz at your Kitset site. Two records at your registrar.

8 min

Your domain says "waiting on DNS"

Almost always just time. Here is how to tell time from a typo.

4 min

Your domain works but shows the old site

The address is answering. It is just answering with something else.

3 min

Changing your site

Words, photos, pages, colours, and getting back to a version that worked.

Change any text or photo

Click the thing. Type. That is the whole editor.

4 min

Photos: sizes, cropping, and what we do for you

Use the big original. We handle the rest.

4 min

Add a new page

A services page, a menu, an about page. Two clicks and a name.

3 min

Add a section

A price list, a gallery, testimonials, an FAQ. Ready made and already matching.

3 min

Colours, fonts and spacing

Change them in one place and the whole site follows.

4 min

Your logo and the little tab icon

The logo in your menu, and the icon in the browser tab.

3 min

Custom CSS, for people who want it

An escape hatch if you or your developer need something the panel cannot do.

3 min

Go back to a version that worked

Every publish is kept. You can return to any of them.

3 min

Getting found

Google, the checkup, and what your visitor numbers actually mean.

Get found on Google: the basics

The handful of things that actually move the needle for a small business.

7 min

Read your SEO checkup

What the three checks mean, and which findings are worth your afternoon.

5 min

What your visitor numbers mean

Views, visitors, and why the two numbers are different.

4 min

Where people came from, including AI

Search, social, email, AI assistants, and people typing your address in.

4 min

Hearing from customers

The contact form, and where the messages end up.

Set up your contact form

Choose what it asks. Fewer boxes means more messages.

4 min

Where enquiries land and how to reply

In your dashboard, and in your email. Reply from whichever suits.

3 min

Other people and AI

Letting somebody help, letting a developer in, and letting an AI do the typing.

Let someone else help with your site

A partner, a staff member, or the person who is good with computers.

3 min

Work with a developer

Hand the technical parts to somebody else and keep the site.

3 min

Let an AI assistant edit your site

Connect ChatGPT or Claude and ask it to write your pages.

5 min

Your account

Your login, your details, and leaving if you want to.

Your login, email and password

Changing your details, and getting back in when you cannot.

2 min

Cancel, or close your account

How to stop paying, and how to leave properly if you want to.

3 min

When something is wrong

What to check before you email us.

Something looks broken: what to check first

Four checks that explain most of it, before you email us.

4 min